Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03

A SOCIALIST sensation has come to the
surface in Swift erland as a sequel to the
expulsion of prominent German leaders.
CLEARANCE CRAWFORD, a young man OF
Ottawa, Kas., was killed in a railroad ac-
eident in Maine, on the 18th.
NICHOLAS BUTTE, mate of the White
river steamboat Joe Peters, was killed by
negro deck-hand at Memphis, Tenn. on
! the 2Sth.
BALDWIN, the Quincy (Ill.) parachutist.
is to drop from the upper air regions at
Kansas City, Mo-, on November 6.
Two men were killed and q number in.
| jured on the 2Sth, by the explosion of
chemicals in carriage factory at Cleve.
| land, o.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire swept over the
Omaha (Neb.) fair grounds on the 18th.
| burning all but one Of the buildings,
sheds, etc. Loss, $25, 900.
REV. DR.. JOHNSON, of Mobile, Ala, was
elected bishop OF the Western diocese of
Texas of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Mr.. HENRY IRVING and Miss Ellen Terry
| arrived in New York on the 2Sth on the
North German Lloyd steamer Aller. They
were met at quarantine by several friends,
| who went down on q tug.
A REPORT has been in circulation that
| the British Govern ment intended to ap-
poin Lord Randolph Churchill Viceroy of
| Canada, to succeed Lord Landsdowne.
Lord Churchill gives the report prompt
denial.
MR.. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT authorizes
a denial that he has, or ever had, any in
terest whatever, in the Mitkiewicz Chinese
National Bank, and any use of his name
in that connection has been without his
knowledge or authority.
THE Pope is disappointed at the failure
OF Mgr. Persico's mission to Ireland.
Mgr. Persico obtained only vague declara-
tions, which will be useless in furthering
the Pope's desire to pave the way for
renewal of diplomatic relations with En-
gland.
On application Of counsel for c. g.
Francklyn, Judge Donohoe, in New York,
reduced his bail bond from 100000 to
$3.50, 900, counsel for Sir Bache Cunard, the
plaintiff. offering no objection.
THE French man-of-war DuqueSne ar
rived at San Francisco from the Hawaiian
Islands on the 2Sth. She carries 600 men,
and is the largest French cruiser that
ever entered San Francisco bay. She
will remain there fourteen days awaiting
orders.
THE saloon of Peter Camp, at Russia
vile, two miles west of Kokomo, Ind,
was blown up by dynamite on the morn
ing of the 2Sth, as well as livery stable
adjoining. A man who slept in the stable
was badly injured.
THE American ship Fanon was torn
from her anchorage at Dantzig during the
recent storm on the Baltic, and came into
collision with three barges laden with
sugar, sinking them and inflicting damage
to the amount of $:35, 900.
LIMA GEIssERT, aged twenty-six years,
the maniac daughter of John Geissert, a
well-known Milwaukee (Wis) saloon
keeper, eluded her keeper on the 2Sth, and
after saturating her clothing with kero-
sene oil set fire to her person. She was
burned in shocking manner and will
probably die.
NEAR New Burlington, eight miles south
of Indianapolis, Ind, on the 2Sth, Pat
Sheckley shot James Carey twice, in
flicting wounds from which he died in
few hours. Sheckley then placed the re-
himself instantly.
GEORGE WoLFORD, of Georgetown, ILL.,,
who has been shamefully abusing his wife,
was taken out by party of neighbors on
the 2Sth, thoroughly whipped and then
turned over to the authorities, charged
with WIFE beating.
JOSEPH BRUcKNER, a German aged
thirty-five, employed in the barb.wire
mill, at Allentown, Pa, while tempo
rarlly insane, on the ZSth, made an It
tempt to kill his wife, but she succeeded
in escaping from the house. Bruckner
then deliberately cut the arteries of his
wrists and his throat from ear to ear, dy-
ing in half an hour.
The Paris Voltdire and L'Euenn,ent pub
fishes the statment that M. Wilson has
forwarded to the Minister of Finance the
sum of 40, 900 francs to cover the postage
of all letters which he may have franked
with President Grevy's stamp during his
residence at Elysee.
HENRY MARTIN JACKSON, the abscond-
ing teller of the sub-treasury at New
York, has been heard from in Canada.
The Canadian police have seen him in
Toronto, Hamilton and London. He had
a woman with him who is not his wife.
PHILIP Cross and John O'Hara were
found at Alpena, Mich, on the morning of
the 2Sth, in the saloon of the former, un-
conscious. O'Hara had bullet in his
head, and Cross had his head chopped
open with an axe. 1t is supposed they
fought together. Both were fatally
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